Whether it's surviving a major outage, building a site from scratch, moving a data center, or keeping your boss happy, this compendium of checklists will help you do anything (even remove the spots from your glasses)!

This chapter is from the book

In this chapter, we pull together the various elements from the rest of the book to provide an overview of how they can be
used to deal with everyday situations or to answer common questions system administrators (SAs) and managers often have.

1.1 Building a Site from Scratch

Think about the organizational structure you need—Chapter 30.

Check in with management on the business priorities that will drive implementation priorities.

Plan your namespaces carefully—Chapter 8.

Build a rock-solid data center—Chapter 6.

Build a rock-solid network designed to grow—Chapter 7.

Build services that will scale—Chapter 5.

Build a software depot, or at least plan a small directory hierarchy that can grow into a software depot—Chapter 28.